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[DrBee]

finally got fitted etc with Ciba H2Optics (I think?) the softer of their 30 day wearers.

I wore O2 Optix for a while. They only lasted about 3 weeks. If I did a lot of riding, they did not last that long. Make sure you wear sunglasses that block most of the wind!

Congrats on the good interview!

[DrBee]

Snap - hang in there! That promotion will come soon. Have you pestered them recently about it? What a PITA! Eat your favorite SB bar and trust that it will work out.

We checked out Roux today - lymph nodes in neck seem to be reduced to normal size (or at least we cannot feel them). He is looking good so far!

Does anyone have any idea why sometimes when I hit an apostrophe or other non-letter character (like backslash) that Firefox puts up the "find" box at the bottom and will not let me type. It is positively maddening! I feel like I am talking like Data. It does not do it every time, just some of the time.

[chickwhorips]

Does anyone have any idea why sometimes when I hit an apostrophe or other non-letter character (like backslash) that Firefox puts up the "find" box at the bottom and will not let me type. It is positively maddening! I feel like I am talking like Data. It does not do it every time, just some of the time.

when you hit the Ctrl button first then one of those it brings up the find box at the bottom.

[DrBee]

when you hit the Ctrl button first then one of those it brings up the find box at the bottom.

True - but I'm not hitting the control button. Hmmmmm...

Lise - that dinner sounded good! I'm still craving the vietnamese food BikerZ and I had in SF and that heavenly OJ I had with MP. Soon - I will live where there are good restaurants. In 2 weeks from today I head to BR!

We had venison (Hunter's style - smothered with onions, garlic, thyme, and saucy) and carrots glazed with brown sugar and butter. Ooh yummy! I love cooking out of the freezer!

[Bikingmomof3]

To prepare to meet another neurologist and find out the results of my MRI, I bought Scharffen Berger Bittersweet and Ghirardelli Intense Dark-Espresso Escape bars. I think I am set, at least for the morning.

[KnottedYet]

Good luck with the neuro! Maybe if you offer to share your SB and G, he'll only give you good news.

Keep us posted!

[Bikingmomof3]

(smacks hand to forehead) I knew I should have purchased some bribary chocolate.

[SadieKate]

To prepare to meet another neurologist and find out the results of my MRI, I bought Scharffen Berger Bittersweet and Ghirardelli Intense Dark-Espresso Escape bars. I think I am set, at least for the morning.

Heh, I just rewarded myself with a Peet's Mocha made with SB - had my first closed MRI and didn't freak out.

I learned about short bore MRIs. I could see the wall beyond my feet the entire time as I was only rolled in up to my hips and a closed MRI takes just slight more than half the time the open MRI did (as takes a better picture). I was a very good patient. Well, other than grousing about the 3 pages of forms to be filled out -- all med record stuff that has been in the same health system for years.

[DebW]

Last night I dehydrated 1.3 pounds of cooked ground turkey. I'm starting a 4 day hike on the Long Trail in Vermont Sunday, so getting the food ready. For dried vegies, I've got turnips, pea pods, asparagus, peas, and corn. Also some yogurt leather and strawberry-banana leather and dried apples. I should be eating pretty well. Cooking on my homemade 1/2 ounce alcohol stove made of tin cans and fiberglass attic insulation, with my 0.9 liter titanium pot.

This will be my final 47 miles of the Long Trail. Did the southern 105 miles (co-incident with the AT) in 2001, another 140 miles from Canada south in 2003. I'm going to do a happy dance and drink a Long Trail Ale when I finish and can call myself a Long Trail End-to Ender. The Long Trail is one tough mother of a trail. Constant ups and downs, which are straight up and down over rock ledges. Took my knees a few months to recover the last time. Imagine standing on a 2 inch wide ledge, with the next step (foothold) another ledge 2.5 feet below, so you basically have to do a one-legged deep knee bend with 35 lb on your back. And do that a dozen or more times per day, combined with a horizontal distance of 10-14 miles. This last stretch, I think, won't be as ledgy as the more northerly parts. And as usual for Vermont hiking, it's supposed to rain 3 of the 4 days.

[mimitabby]

Imagine standing on a 2 inch wide ledge, with the next step (foothold) another ledge 2.5 feet below, so you basically have to do a one-legged deep knee bend with 35 lb on your back. And do that a dozen or more times per day, combined with a horizontal distance of 10-14 miles. This last stretch, I think, won't be as ledgy as the more northerly parts. And as usual for Vermont hiking, it's supposed to rain 3 of the 4 days.

oh Deb, be careful. Sounds scary! I hate walking on ledges!

I also hate deep knee bends!


I myself am very nervous about the Menage a Trois race i am in on Sunday.
my racehorse/captain is WAY competitive. I must be nuts!!! my poor DH is having anxiety dreams about this same race. He is on a team with another big strong character and a very sensible but fairly fast woman. I am the only
one on the back of a tandem (that i know of)

[Bicyclette]

BMo3 - Good luck with the neuro

KY - I like the wildebeast

Deb -WOW!! Hope you have a great time and don't get too wet

Mimi - Good luck on Sunday - I'll bet you do great

[DebW]

oh Deb, be careful. Sounds scary! I hate walking on ledges!

I also hate deep knee bends!

These aren't vertical ledges with long drop-offs, just short (6-8 vertical feet) stretches of bare rock that are steep enough you need small flat spots to put your feet on and sometimes roots to hold for balance. My hiking partner from 2003 did this hike in 2004 and hated it because of the mud. There are shelters every 5-7 miles so at least I can get out of the rain. And if it's raining all night and I'm alone in a shelter, I'm using a one-gallon ziplock bag instead of going outside to pee.

Best story from the 2003 hike was when we decided to take a day off in town. The local B&B was full, but the owner said he knew a woman who might take us (2 women and a dog) in. So we stayed with a wonderful 80 year old woman who first wanted us to check the beds to see if they were all right (we'd been sleeping on plywood for 2 weeks, the beds were great). She fed us venison chilli for lunch, we hung out on the lawn with her neighbors all afternoon, she cooked us breakfast (even an egg for the dog), and drove us back to the trail. She offered to keep the dog while we finished hiking, but a day of rest did the dog good and he continued on with us. A week later after bailing off the trail and hitching back towards my car, we ended up in the same town and got to visit her again. Such a treat meeting a gracious and down-to-earth woman in a little town in Vermont. I got a Christmas card from her that year.

[KnottedYet]

The bars are WRAPPED. I had to re-do the first side. Guess I was just practicing.

Flossie is ready for a ride.

My next door neighbor (the one whose boyfriend shot himself in the head a couple weeks ago) is here with her mom moving stuff out of the apartment. She came to my door on the verge of tears asking me if I wanted her patio furniture. Then she started crying. I felt like such an @ss, because all I could say as she walked away was "Hang in there."

I am ready for a ride.

[chickwhorips]

there really isn't the "right" thing to say in a situation like that. your not an @$$ at all.

[Lise]

KN, you're not an @ss. She's going to cry no matter what. Your kind intention will show through any words at all.

Kitsune, congrats on the good job interview and the new lenses!

Snap--arrrrgh! I agree, polish up the resume.

SK--chocolate has remarkable spirit-lifting powers, non?

I just made the most delicious and easy meal. Trader Joe's frozen Veggie Pad Thai in a bag + broiled salmon. Good, crisp veggies, tasty sauce. Salmon--fairly cheap pieces from Jewel (I know, should be wild caught or something, but I live on the edge), with soy sauce and sesame oil, broiled 5 min/side, mixed in with the Pad Thai. Delish and good for me, too.

And, going to nap before heading in to a night shift. L.